Systems and Methods for Analyzing Melodies

1. A system for identifying a unique pattern in a melody, the system comprising: a memory device storing software instructions; a database storing: a plurality of melodies; a plurality of 2-note patterns stored in association with the plurality of melodies, wherein each 2-note pattern of the plurality of 2-note patterns comprises a pitch differential and a duration ratio for two consecutive notes in at least one of the plurality of melodies; and at least one metric stored in association with the plurality of 2-note patterns; and a processor configured to execute the software instructions to: read, from the database, frequency data for the plurality of 2-note patterns stored in the database; determine, from the frequency data, a subset of the 2-note patterns, wherein each 2-note pattern in the subset appears in only one of the plurality of melodies stored in the database; and determine, based on the subset of 2-note patterns, a subset of the melodies stored in the database, wherein each melody in the subset is identified as having a unique 2-note pattern.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the database stores at least one melody identification number and location information in association with the at least one of the plurality of 2-note patterns.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein: the subset of the melodies is a first subset, the database stores a plurality of 3-note patterns stored in association with the plurality of melodies, wherein each 3-note pattern of the plurality of 3-note patterns comprises two pitch differentials and two duration ratios for three consecutive notes in at least one of the plurality of melodies, and the processor is further configured to: read, from the database, frequency data for the plurality of 3-note patterns stored in the database; determine, from the frequency data, a subset of the 3-note patterns, wherein each 3-note pattern in the subset appears in only one of the plurality of melodies stored in the database; and determine, based on the subset of 3-note patterns, a second subset of the melodies stored in the database, wherein each melody in the second subset is: not included in the first subset of the melodies; and identified as having a unique 3-note pattern.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein: the subset of the melodies is a first subset, the database stores a plurality of n-note patterns stored in association with the plurality of melodies, wherein each n-note pattern of the plurality of n-note patterns comprises n−1 pitch differentials and n−1 duration ratios for n consecutive notes in at least one of the plurality of melodies, wherein n is an integer greater than 3, and the processor is further configured to: read, from the database, frequency data for the plurality of n-note patterns stored in the database; determine, from the frequency data, a subset of the n-note patterns, wherein each n-note pattern in the subset appears in only one of the plurality of melodies stored in the database; and determine, based on the subset of n-note patterns, a second subset of the melodies stored in the database, wherein each melody in the second subset is: not included in the first subset of the melodies; and identified as having a unique n-note pattern.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the frequency data for the plurality of 2-note patterns identifies the number of times each 2-note pattern appears in the melodies stored in the database.